Another amazing contest, this time brought to you by EditorialAss (aka. Moonrat)

I'm so excited about this contest that I'm literally jumping up and down! (Which makes it extremely hard to type, so I'll sit down now).

Editorial Ass has hit her 500,000 hit mark for her blog (I think 489,000 might have been me, because I follow her blog religiously! :) )

So, she's offering up a contest to celebrate.  Here are the rules, copied directly from her blog post:

Ed Ass got its 500,000th hit today. This makes me feel old and venerable.

Naturally, I wanted to celebrate. I mean, with you guys, since you made it happen. But how?! No one has yet invented a giant internet pie.

Jamie Harrington, clever thing, had the idea that I have a giveaway contest, the prize being a first 20 pages crit. So that's what it is! I'll give away one crit of a book's first 20 pages (size 12 font, double spaced, .5 margins for you sneaky sneakies out there).

You'll be automatically entered to win if you do any or all of the following things:

1) repost this on your blog

OR

2) retweet my Twitter announcement

OR

3) link to this post on Facebook (make sure you include @Moonrat in the post so I'm notified of it)

I'll close the contest at 11 pm EST tomorrow (March 31). The Rally Monkey will randomly select one winner without my input (as if I could make him listen to me, anyway).

Yay! I'm really excited now.

You can become a fellow blog stalker of hers here: http://editorialass.blogspot.com/2010/03/half-million-and-counting.html

Good luck!!

It's a beautiful day!

After yesterday, today could only be better!  I actually managed to get to write for a few hours after the kids went to bed, and wrote a killer scene.  And by killer I mean killer.  I got chills as I wrote it, and then got chills when I reread what I wrote.  It's one of those scenes that make the book. (And I've already got quite a few scenes that I feel are that way).  I really wish I could tell you more about it.

I feel so energized after writing that scene that I can't wait to write tonight.  I can't wait to get back to Alex and Anna and let them experience their next adventure.

I don't care if this book ever gets published.  Just the fact that the story is on paper for me to read over and over again is all I need!

What I'm listening to: Well last night the internet went down so I wasn't listening to anything!

Awesome contest held by Susie Townsend of Fine Print Literary

If anyone is interested, Susie Townsend ( literary agent at Fine Print Literary (and hopefully someday my agent!)) is having a contest.  The winner gets a copy of Hourglass, the 3rd book in the Evernight series.

I have yet to read the Evernight series, but it is definitely on my list of books to read.  Once I am done with my novel (my working title is Blue Lotus ) I am absolutely going to read this, and the Summoning series.  Oh and finish the Traveler series (book 1 down, two more to go).  So much to read, so little time to do it in!

Has anyone read the Evernight series yet?  What did you think about it?

Here's the link to Susie's contest: http://confessionsofawanderingheart.blogspot.com/2010/03/win-copy-of-hourglass-by-claudia-gray.html

Good luck!!

Procrastination in all it's forms...

I know it's been a while since I've posted.  My laptop crashed, again.  Initially I took it as a sign from God that I shouldn't be writing.  So I took a hiatus.  I focused on my kids, my netflix membership and just generally did everything but write.  I had to reformat my hard drive again, but did not do it for weeks. I knew my book was safe on my thumb drive and my D:/ drive, but I had no desire to go and fix it so that I could start writing again.  I took my laptop being broken as an excuse to not write.  God was telling my that I shouldn't be writing and my writing wasn't as good as it needed to be to get published. I wasn't good enough.

But I continued reading agent's blogs and decided that it was time to keep writing.  So, I reformatted the hard drive. I promise tonight I will spend time with my novel.  It's about damn time. 

So no more procrastination!

Oh and on the procrastination front, I bought New Moon yesterday and finally got to watch it.  The movie came out in theaters shortly after my daughter was born, so I could not go see it in the theaters.  So I patiently (ok well unpatiently) waited for it to come out on DVD.  It was so much more 'big movie' than Twilight.  Twilight had a 'indie' feel to it, while New Moon was absolutely a big budget endeavor.  The makeup artist did a spectacular job with Robert Pattinson.  He really looked like the Edward that I pictured as I read the books.  And Taylor Lautner looked amazing, even if he is jail bait.  I can't believe how he transformed for his role.  Absolutely stunning.  Overall the movie was pretty good, it stuck closely to the books, which I loved.  My major issue with Twilight was that it deviated from the book in so many ways.  I just wished they could have included more of my favorite parts of the book in New Moon.  I loved the scene where she wakes up after they return from Italy and she thinks it was all a dream, and he has to convince her that she is awake.  That scene always gives me goosebumps.  Oh such a sap I am. I know. Twihard (or Twitard as my husband likes to call me).

I know people will give me crap about liking Twilight, especially because I'm a writer myself.  Yes I know the writing could have been better. Yes I know that she did a lot of things she wasn't supposed to do. But honestly, if the series was that bad, why does she have the following that she does? Why would grown women stand in line with teenagers to buy the books, or at the premier of the movies?  Why would the people who starred in the movies become instant mega-stars?  She's done something right, even if you don't like it. 

Okay guys - enough procrastination.  I gotta go clean so that after the kids go to bed I can get back to Alex and Anna.